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a lot of this will be handled in the new theme however I have little interest/time in fixing a lot of this in prosilver myself, but if you or someone else put together some prs we are more than happy to look them over.

I posted some ideas to improve the style for mobile editing, but no one was interested in discussing it on the main forum. phpBB is 10 years out of date when it comes to posting on smartphones. I don't understand why this has not been a priority. All the improvements to making viewing a forum responsive but nothing for posting???

After using it for a few days, I realize it is not ideal to have the button appear at the top of the text area. Sometimes when you select text, the copy/paste phone UI will appear above the text and block the buttons. So I moved the bbCode bar to the bottom of the text area on vertical screens.

phpBB is 10 years out of date when it comes to posting on smartphones.

Smartphones had not started to have any real widespread adoption until the iPhone was introduced in 2007 and at that point the entire web was a few years away from supporting such devices properly (Twitter Bootstrap, for instance, originally came out in 2011). Even then it was still some time away from being widely adopted so 10 years is a bit of an exaggeration.

In any case while I agree that it is probably a good suggestion for a change (I have had this problem myself) you end up with a different problem I think: the keyboard ends up covering the entirety of the buttons on some devices since not all keyboards are the same with some even including a row of keys for numbers at the top. This is especially problematic for Android as the keyboard can be different across manufacturers. I'm not sure that covering all of the buttons is a better solution from only covering some of the buttons occasionally. Any thoughts on handling that?

With my out of date comment I was trying to emphasize how phpBB has been slow to adapt to new web technologies. We basically just got some Ajax functionality which was long overdue. A large portion of web viewing is now done on mobile devices. It is ridiculous how bad trying to post in phpBB is on the latest version.

Someone with experience designing for mobile would have to chime in about the different layouts.

While typing this reply the textarea is wider than my screen so I have to manually scroll over if I need to see the text. This is dreadful.

While typing this reply the textarea is wider than my screen so I have to manually scroll over if I need to see the text. This is dreadful.

You'll have to specify what device you're using. I just replied using a Galaxy S6 and took a look over on an iPad and don't see that problem at all. Both on landscape and portrait the submit button is on the center of the screen with no need for scrolling and the text area is the proper width.